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The '''European New Right''' (Nouvelle Droite) is the intellectual current founded around Alain de Benoist and GRECE (Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne, 1968) — the attempt to rebuild anti-liberal thought on metapolitical foundations after classical fascism's defeat.
The '''European New Right''' (Nouvelle Droite, GRECE, Alain de Benoist) enters Infrared discourse primarily through Haz Al-Din's critical treatment of '''Alexander Dugin''' — whose intellectual development ran through it.


== Doctrines ==
== From the Dugin discussion ==
* '''Metapolitics''': culture precedes politics; win the "battle of ideas" before contesting power (a Gramscian strategy inverted to right-wing use).
From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/38f06028-e353-4f38-aa84-ddc64909240c/ MAGA Communism stream], Haz traces Dugin's trajectory: from 1980s neo-Nazism ("he rejected Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy always" — the "super-fascist" phase), through Pamyat's antisemitic ultra-nationalism, to contact with the European New Right as the USSR collapsed — which shaped the Fourth Political Theory.
* '''Ethnopluralism''': against both universalist liberalism and assimilationism — the "right to difference" of peoples and cultures, weaponized against immigration while claiming anti-racist form.
* Anti-Americanism and anti-market liberalism: critique of "total market" society, hedonism, and Atlantic hegemony; sympathy toward a "Europe of fatherlands" and, in Dugin's variant, Eurasian multipolarity.
* Pagan/classical self-assertion against Judeo-Christian universalism.


== Assessment ==
But Haz complicates the standard narrative with Dugin's own 2004 article on the European right: Dugin found them wanting — "a bunch of misfits incapable of original thinking or deeds... they whine and squabble over trivia and grumble at a world they don't understand and are pathologically afraid of" — even rating the Red Brigades "a hundred times more attractive than the majority of these European traditionalists." The point: the picture of Dugin-as-NRx-disciple is one-sided; his relationship to the New Right was disappointment as much as inheritance.
The Nouvelle Droite is the serious right's long march: it supplied the theoretical vocabulary (identitarianism, ethnopluralism, metapolitics) for today's nationalist movements. Marxist critique notes its constitutive evasion: '''capital is never named as class relation''' — "market" and "system" are criticized abstractly while the social relations of exploitation are left intact, and cultural conflict substitutes for class struggle. Infrared's line: take their anti-liberalism seriously, reject their racialism absolutely (see [[Arktos Media]], [[Curtis Yarvin]], [[Strasserism]]).
 
== The standing critique ==
The Nouvelle Droite's method — metapolitics, ethnopluralism, anti-Americanism without class analysis — remains what Infrared rejects: anti-liberalism that never names capital as class relation. Where the New Right replaces class with culture, Infrared insists on nation-as-form, class-as-content ([[Dugin]], [[Arktos Media]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Alexander Dugin]]
* [[Curtis Yarvin]]
* [[A. James Gregor]]
* [[Nazi-Maoism]]


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 10:00, 21 August 2026

The European New Right (Nouvelle Droite, GRECE, Alain de Benoist) enters Infrared discourse primarily through Haz Al-Din's critical treatment of Alexander Dugin — whose intellectual development ran through it.

From the Dugin discussion

From the MAGA Communism stream, Haz traces Dugin's trajectory: from 1980s neo-Nazism ("he rejected Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy always" — the "super-fascist" phase), through Pamyat's antisemitic ultra-nationalism, to contact with the European New Right as the USSR collapsed — which shaped the Fourth Political Theory.

But Haz complicates the standard narrative with Dugin's own 2004 article on the European right: Dugin found them wanting — "a bunch of misfits incapable of original thinking or deeds... they whine and squabble over trivia and grumble at a world they don't understand and are pathologically afraid of" — even rating the Red Brigades "a hundred times more attractive than the majority of these European traditionalists." The point: the picture of Dugin-as-NRx-disciple is one-sided; his relationship to the New Right was disappointment as much as inheritance.

The standing critique

The Nouvelle Droite's method — metapolitics, ethnopluralism, anti-Americanism without class analysis — remains what Infrared rejects: anti-liberalism that never names capital as class relation. Where the New Right replaces class with culture, Infrared insists on nation-as-form, class-as-content (Dugin, Arktos Media).

See also

References